Stonelick Creek

Stonelick doesn't have a reliable gauge. I've been watching this creek for a year and I'm starting to get a feel for what the local rains do to it, which I think is not correlated with the published gauge on the East Fork at Perintown. Currently (11:45 AM) Perintown is showing 3440 CFS. I was just out to look at Stonelick on Rt. 50 and after last night's heavy rain the lower Stonelick is running pretty big. Is it 3440? No, probably not, but that's not surprising considering that the East Fork and Stonelick behave differently after storms. Stonelick right now looks more like 1500-2000 to me, but that's just a guess. Lacking a reliable gauge of any kind on Stonelick, I think O'Bannon may actually correlate a bit better with Stonelick than East Fork at Perintown. O'Bannon peaked early this morning at 00:45 AM at 10,300 CFS. Currently (11:45 AM) it's at 1080 CFS. Stonelick feels slightly bigger than O'Bannon and the storm response is similar. Anyway, I think it's time for a stage measurement to be installed or painted on one of the Rt. 50 bridge piling. Let's see if we can make that happen so we can start getting some more reliable data again. I'l post a picture of current flow under Rt. 50 in the photo section.